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The Sons and Daughters 



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Sacramento Society 



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CALIFORNIA PIONEERS. 



SACRAMENTO: 
D. Johnston & Co., Printers. 

1891. 



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Officers foP 1891«2. 



President, 
WM. M. SIMS. 

Vice-President, 
LEILA J. LINDLEY. 

Sec]-etary, 

ANNIE LUTHER. 

Treasurer, 

MATIE JOHNSTON. 

IMarshal, 

P. C. EARNS WORTH. 

Directors : 

GUSSIE CaRROLI., LEII.A J. LlNDLKY, 

Minnie Richardson, FIvOrence McKune, 
W. E. OSBORN, C. E. Mack, Jr., 

WxM. M. Sims, W. A. Gett, Jr., 

H. M. La Rue, Jr. 



Articles of Incorporation 



Know All Men by These Presents : That the per- 
sons whose names are subscribed hereto, and 
those that have been heretofore associated 
together with them in a voluntary association 
or society known as " The Sons and Daughters 
of the Sacramento Society of California Pio- 
neers," have formed and do hereby form 
themselves into a corporation, and have pre- 
pared and do hereby prepare these Articles of 
Incorporation, and do hereby set forth and 
declare : 

First — That the name of said Corporation shall 
be and is "The Sons and Daughters of 
THE Sacramento Society of Cai^ifornia Pio- 
neers." 

Second — That the purposes for which it is 
formed, and its objects, are to cultivate the social 
virtues of its members ; to collect and preserve 
information connected with the early settlement 
and conquest of the country ; to perpetuate the 
memory of those whose sagacity, enterprise and 
love of independence induced them to settle in a 
wilderness and become the germ of a new State ; 
to own, hold, buy and sell real estate and personal 



ARTICI^ES OF INCORPORATION. 



property, and to loan aud invest its money ; to 
take and hold property in trust, and to take care 
of the cemetery plot of the Sacramento Society of 
California Pioneers. 

Third— That its principal place of business is 
Sacramento, County of Sacramento, State of Cali- 
fornia. 

Fourth— That the term for which it is to exist 
is fifty (50) years after the date of its incorporation. 

Fifth— That it has no capital stock. 

Sixth — That the number of its Trustees, or Di- 
rectors, shall be nine (9), and the names and resi- 
dences of those who are appointed for the first 
term, or year, are as follows, viz.: 

Mrs. Gussie Carroll ; residence, Sacramento, Cal- 
ifornia. 

Miss Minnie Richardson ; residence, Sacramento, 
California. 

Miss Leila J. Ivindley ; residence, Sacramento, 
California. 

Miss Florence McKune ; residence, Sacramento, 
California. 

C. E. Mack, Jr. ; residence, Union House, Sacra- 
mento County, California. 

W. M. Sims ; residence, Sacramento, California. 

W. A. Gett, Jr.; residence, Sacramento, Califor- 
nia. 

W. K. Osborn ; residence, Sacramento, California. 



ARTICI^ES OF INCORPORATION. 



H. M. La Rue, Jr. ; residence, Sacramento, Cali- 
fornia. 

Seventh— That at a meeting of snch society, or 
voluntary association, held at its hall, known as 
the Pioneer Hall, Seventh Street, between J and 
K streets, in the City of Sacramento, State of Cali- 
fornia, on the evening of the ninth day of May, 
1891, an election was held for Directors, or Trus- 
tees, of said association, under its laws, rules and 
regulations ; that at such election a majority of the 
members present voted at such election. The per- 
sons whose names appear in Paragraph Sixth 
hereof were elected as the Directors of this associ- 
ation for the term of one year, or until their suc- 
cessors are elected and qualified, from said date ; 
that the oflScers of said association who conducted 
said election were V. S. McClatchy, President, and 
Leila J. Lindley, Secretary, respectively ; that on 
said ninth day of May, 1891, at its hall of meeting 
aforesaid, in the City of Sacramento, State of Cali- 
fornia, pursuant to notice duly given, the members 
of said association met for the purpose of incorpor- 
ation ; that the said meeting having been duly 
organized, V. S. McClatchy, President, presiding, 
and Leila J. Lindley, Secretary, acting as Secre- 
tary, a majority of the members present voting, it 
was unanimously resolved that said association 
should thenceforth assume corporate powers, with 



artici.es of incorporation. 



the Directors heretofore named and duly elected as 
its Directors. 

Witness our hands this 28th day of July, 1891. 

Mrs. Gussie Carrgi,!.. 
Miss Minnie Richardson. 
Miss LeiIvA J. Lindi^ey. 
Miss Fi^orence McKune. 
C. E. Mack, Jr. 
W. M. Sims. 
W. A. Gett, Jr. 
W. E. Osborn. 
H. M. La Rue, Jr. 

State of Cai^ifornia, ) 
County of Sacramento. J " ' 

On this 28th day of July, in the year 1891, 
before me, Edward J. Dwyer, a Notary Public in 
and for said Count}^ personally appeared Gussie 
Carroll, Minnie Richardson, Leila J. Lindley, Flor- 
ence McKune, C. E. Mack, Jr., W. M. Sims, W. 
A. Gett, Jr., W. E. Osborn and H. M. La Rue, Jr., 
known to me to be the persons whose names are 
subscribed to the within instrument, and they 
acknowledged to me that they executed the same. 
EDWARD J. DWYER, 

Notary Public. 



ARTICI^ES OF INCORPORATION. 



State of California, \ 
County of Sacramento. /^^' 

V. S, McClatchy and Leila J. Lindley, being duly 
sworn, sa}-, respective]}' : That the}' are the persons 
and officers referred to in the Seventh Subdivision 
of the Articles of Incorporation of "The Sons and 
Daughters of the Sacramento Society of California 
Pioneers," and have heard read said Articles, and 
that all the facts set forth in Subdivision Seven 

""'^ ^'■"^- V. S. MCCI.ATCHY. 

Leila J. Lindley. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th 
day of July, 1891. 

EDWARD J. DWYER, 

Notar}^ Public. 



CONSTITUTION, 



PREAMBLE. 

The vSacramento Society of California Pioneers 
having proposed to us that we incorporate with 
only the lineal descendants of members of that 
Society as corporators, to which all its property 
interests shall at a proper time be transferred, 
charged with its management and the proper care 
of its cemetery plot in perpetuity, this corporation 
is therefore organized in accordance with that 
proposition, and it accepts the trust, and engages 
to execute the same, and for all time take good 
care of the graves of our ancestors, and as best we 
may, perpetuate the memory of the present Society. 

ARTICLE 1—Name. 

This Association shall be called "The Sons 
AND Daughters of the Sacramento Society 
OF California Pioneers." 

ARTICLE II — Qualifications for Member shix) . 

Section i. This Society shall be composed of 
Sons and Daughters of the members in good stand- 
ing of the Sacramento Society of California Pio- 



CONSTITUTION. 



iieers, or of deceased members who died in good 
standing, and of lineal descendants of such Sons 
and Daughters. Applicants for membership nuist 
have attained the age of eighteen years and be of 
good moral character. 

Sec. 2. ■ All members in good standing of the 
Sacramento Society of California Pioneers are 
hereb}^ made Honorary Members of this Society, 
with the privilege of speech and debate, but with- 
out the privilege of voting. 

ARTICIvE lll—Blectiom. 

Section i. Any person desiring to become a 
member of this Society may have his or her name 
proposed, in writing, at any meeting, and the vote 
shall be taken by ballot at the next meeting, and 
ten negative votes shall be sufficient to reject his 
or her application. Any person who shall have 
been once balloted for and rejected shall not 
again be proposed for membership within one year 
from said rejection. 

Sec. 2. The Officers of the Society shall be 
elected annually by ballot at the regular meeting 
in October, at which meeting a majorit}^ of all 
votes cast shall be necessary to elect. 

Sec. 3. The Officers of this Society shall con- 
sist of nine Directors. The Directors shall choose 
from their number a President and Vice-President, 
who shall be theirs and the Society's President and 



CONSTITUTION. 



Vice-President for the ensuing year ; a Recording 
and Financial Secretary ; a Treasurer, and a Mar- 
shal, who shall assume the duties of their respec- 
tive offices on the Monda}' next succeeding their 
election, and shall hold their offices for one year, 
or until their successors shall have been elected 
and assumed their duties. 

ARTICIvE TV— Meetings. 

Regular meetings of this Society shall be held at 
Pioneer Hall, City of Sacramento, California, at 
such times as ma}- be designated in the By-Laws of 
the Societ3^ Fifteen members shall constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business. Special 
meetings may be called by the President, by the 
Board of Directors, or 1)}^ five members making 
application therefor, in writing, to the President. 

ARTICLE V — Ap2^ro}yriation of Funds. 

Each person, on admission, shall pay such fees 
as shall be prescribed by the By-Laws. 

ARTICLE VI -Board of Directors. 

The Directors shall hold their first meeting on 
the Monday next succeeding their election, at 
which time it shall be their duty to elect, by bal- 
lot, from their number, a President and Vice- 
President, who shall act as such officers of their 
Board and of their vSociety for the ensuing year. 



CONSTITUTION. II 



They shall also elect from the Society a Secretary, 
a Treasurer and a Marshal. The Board shall hold 
regular meetings in Pioneer Hall, City of Sacra- 
mento, California, on the first Saturday of the 
first month of each and every quarter. At all 
meetings of the Board five members shall consti. 
tute a quorum for the transaction of business, and 
they shall fill all vacancies which may occur in 
their body. The Presideut or any three members 
may call a special meeting b}-^ a notice in writing 
delivered to each Director by the Secretary. 

ARTICLE VII -By-Laws. 
The Board of Directors shall enact By-Laws for 
the government of the Society, which, with all 
their proceedings, shall be laid before the Society 
at the first meeting thereafter ; and it shall be com- 
petent for the vSociety to propose, alter, amend, 
reject or enact an}' By-Laws by a majority of the 
members, of not less than thirty, present at any 
stated meeting, and in no other way. 

ARTICLE Ylll -President. 
The President shall preside over and preserve 
order at all meetings of the Society and Board of 
Directors. He shall approve all accounts previous 
to their being paid b}- the Treasurer, which have 
been approved by the Board of Directors, and at 
the expiration of his term of ofiice shall address 



CONSTITUTION. 



the members upon the condition and requirements 
of the Society. 

ARTICLE IX — Vice-President. 

The Vice-President, in the absence of the Presi- 
dent, shall assume the duties and be invested with 
all the powers of President. 

ARTICIvE X- Secretary. 

The Secretary shall keep correct minutes of all 
proceedings of the Society, preserve a register of 
the members' names and their Postoffice address, 
keep a correct account with the members, and col- 
lect and pay to the Treasurer the moneys due to 
the Society, taking his receipt for the same ; and 
he shall be responsible for the safe keeping of all 
the books aud papers belonging to the Society, 
excepting those of the Treasurer ; he shall certify 
all accounts and records under the direction of the 
Board of Directors, and countersign all orders on 
the Treasurer signed by the President ; he shall 
make reports of his accounts at such times as may 
be required by the Society ; he shall report the 
name of each member in arrears to the Society 
immediately preceding the election for officers ; 
he shall give the members and Board of Directors 
proper notice of all meetings. He shall be exempt 
from the payment of dues, and from serving on 



CONSTITUTION. I3 



committees, and shall receive as compensation for 

all services the sum of twent}' dollars per annum. 

ARTICLE XI - Treasurer. 

The Treasurer shall receive and safely keep the 
funds of the Society, recording all receipts and 
disbursements in a book provided for him for such 
purpose, and shall report the same semi-annually 
and at such other periods as the Society or Board 
of Directors may require. He shall pay no money 
without an order signed by the President and 
countersigned by the Secretary. At the expiration 
of his term of office he shall deliver all books and 
papers, moneys, vouchers and other property be- 
longing to the Society in his possession into the 
hands of his successor. The Treasurer shall give 
bonds for faithful discharge of his duties in such 
sum as may be fixed b}' the Board of Directors, 
and approved by them. 

ARTICLE :KII— Marshal. 

In all cases of public parade, while on the street 
the Society shall be under the direction of the 
Marshal. 

ARTICLE XUl— Penalties. 

Any member who may be in arrears at an}' regu- 
lar meeting, or who shall refuse to pa}- his annual 



14 CONSTITUTION. 



or other dues when called upon by the Secretar^^, 
shall be ineligible to office, to vote at any meeting, 
or enjoy the honors of this vSociety in any manner 
until such time as all arrears shall have been paid. 

ARTlCIvE XIY— Anniversary. 

The annual celebration day of this Society shall 
be the 19th day of January. 

ARTlCIvK 'KY— Fines and Punishments. 

Members guilt}^ of misconduct or crime may be 
expelled or suspended by a vote of two thirds of 
the members present at any stated meeting, pro- 
vided there be not less than thirty members pres- 
ent ; and any officer of this vSociety, having first 
had an opportunity to make a defense, may be 
removed from his office by the Board of Directors 
for such cause as in its opinion may be sufficient, 
providing that such proceedings shall have no 
effect unless it is by a two-thirds vote of all the 
Directors present, there being not less than seven, 
at any meeting. 

ARTlCIvE :KW I— Alterations or Amendments. 

This Constitution shall not be altered or amended 
unless by a vote of two-thirds of the active members 
present at a regular meeting. All such alterations 



CONSTITUTION. 1 5 



or anieiidiiieiits must be proposed at some meeting 
at least three months prior to passing thereon, and 
it shall not be in the power of this Society to alter 
or amend in any way or manner Article II of this 
Constitution. 




BY-LAWS. 



Section i. ISFee tings. The meetings of this 
Society shall be held on the evenings of the first 
Saturday of each month. The time of meeting 
shall be 8 p. m. 

Skc. 2. Applications for Dlenibership. The fee 
for initiation shall be %i 50. No application will 
be considered unless the initiation fee and dues for 
one year accompany it. Application for member- 
ship shall be made in writing at any meeting, stat- 
ing the name, residence, age, birthplace, profession 
or business, and whether married or single. The 
application shall then be referred to a committee 
of three, appointed by the President, for investiga- 
tion. At the next regular meeting, and after the 
report of the investigating committee, the vote 
shall be taken by ballot ; and ten negative votes 
shall be sufficient to reject the application. All 
persons so elected shall sign the Constitution and 
By-laws, and will then have become a member of 
this Society. 

Skc. 3. Dues. The annual dues shall be |i 00, 
payable annually in advance ; and any member 
failing to pay the same for the period of one year 
shall lose his membership, as hereinafter provided. 



BY-LAWS. 17 



All dues shall commence on the first day of Janii- 
arj^ of each j^ear. At the regular meeting of the 
Society in November of each year the Secretary 
shall read the name of each member who has not 
paid his or her dues for the current year, and shall, 
within ten days thereafter, notify each delinquent 
in writing that if he or she is in arrears on the last 
Saturday following, his or her membership will 
cease. At the regular meeting in December the 
names of all those whose dues remain unpaid shall 
be read for the second time, and at the regular 
meeting in January all remaining shall be read for 
the last time, and the President shall announce to 
the meeting that they have ceased membership. 

Any person who has ceased membership for non- 
payment of dues may make application in writing 
for reinstatement, and the application must be read 
at a regular meeting and lay over until the next 
regular meeting, at which time the applicant shall 
be balloted for with ball ballot, and if ten or more 
negative ballots appear, the application shall be 
rejected; but if less than ten negative ballots 
appear, the applicant shall be admitted upon pay- 
ment of such sum as was unpaid at the time he 
or she ceased membership 

Sec. 4. Life Membership. Any person who is 
entitled to become a member of this Society, upon 
the payment of ^25 00 shall be elected to become 
a life member thereof. 



1 8 BY-I,AWS. 



Sec. 5. Fiauds. Any person wlio shall become 
a member fraudulently, shall be expelled from the 
Society. 

Sec. 6. Secretary's Report. Tlie Secretary shall 
keep the following records : A record of the trans- 
actions at the regular and special meetings of the 
Society, and a record of the transactions of the 
meetings of the Board of Directors ; a record of 
membership, showing names and residence, with 
column for remarks, in which shall be noted the 
resignation, decease, or any action of the Society 
affecting the status of members ; an application 
record, in which the names of applicants for mem- 
bership shall be entered, showing the date of appli- 
cation, name and residence, by whom proposed, to 
whom referred, the final action of the Society and 
whether the parties have signed the Constitution. 

Sec. 7. Fiinerats. It shall be the duty of all 
members of the Society to attend the funerals of 
deceased brethren and sisters, unless excused by 
the President. 

Sec. 8. Dues May Be Remitted. When the 
Board of Directors are satisfied that any worthy 
member of the Society is for the present unable to 
pay the annual dues, they shall have the power to 
remit such dues. 



BY-I,AWS. 19 



We, the undersigned, a majority of the Directors 
of the Sons and Daughters of the Sacramento 
Society of California Pioneers, hereby certity that 
the foregoing By-Laws have been duly adopted as 
the By- laws of said Society. 

Witness our hands this 4th day of August, 1S91 : 
GUSSIE Carroli., 
Minnie Richardson, 
Florence McKune, 
Leila J. Lindley, 
Wm. M. Sims. 
William K. Osborn, 
William A. Gett, Jr., 
Hugh :m. La Rue, Jr., 
Chas E. Mack, Jr. 







Oi^der of Business. 


I. 


Reading of Minutes. 


2. 


Propositions for Membership. 


3- 


Reports of Committees on Membership. 


4- 


Balloting for Members. 


5- 


Introduction of New Members. 


6. 


Reports of Standing Committees. 


7- 


Reports of Special Committees. 


8. 


Unfinished Business. 


9- 


Communications. 


lO. 


New Business. 



OKKICKRS: 



President : 

WM. M. SIMS. 

Vire- President : 

LELIA J. LINDLEY. 

Secretary : 

ANNIE I.. LUTHER. 
Treasurer : 

MATIE J. EDINGER. 

Mars/ml : 

PERCY E. FARNSWORTH. 

Directors : 

MINNIE RICHARDSON, 
FLORENCE McKUNE, 
LEII A J. LINDLEY, 
GUSSIE CARROLL, 
WM. M. SIMS, 
H. M. LA RUE, JR., 
CHAS. E. MACK, JR., 
WM. E, OSBORN, 
W. A. GETT, JR. 





22 MEMBERS. 


NlKIVrBKRS: 


Aiken, James, 


Allen, Jennie, 


Aikeii. Jessie, 


iVndrevvs, Nellie, 


Aiken, Katie, 


Arenz, Belle, 


Aiken, Lizzie, 


Arenz, Lulu, 


Aiken, Mattie, 




Botsford, Mrs. H. C, 


Burnett, Georg;e, 


Burnett, Chas. L., 


Burnett, Henry, 


Burnett, Florence, 




Cadogan, Angela M., 


Catlin, John, 


Cadogan, John P., 


Catlin, Ruth, 


Cadogan, Maria A., 


Chapman, Mrs. E. M., 


Capen, Hattie DeMerritt 


Chapman, Miss F. A., 


Carroll, E Igar B., 


Colegrove, May M., 


Carroll, Gussie, 




DeMerritt, Mrs. D. E., 


DeValin, George, 


DeMerritt, Ennna F., 


Dunlap, Nellie, 


Edinger, MatieJ., 


Eilers, Mrs. Theo., , 


Farnsworth, Merc}- C, 


F'reeman, Etta, 


Farnsvvorth, P. E., 


Freenian, Fred, 


Figg, Edward J., 


Freeman, George H., 


Figg, George L., 


Freeman, Grant, 


Figg, Susie, 


Freeman, Lenore, 


Fitzgerald, Mary Alvord 


Freeman, Wm., 


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MEMBERS. 23 


Garrett, Hiraui, 


Grahm, Jennie, 


Garrett, Marie, 


Grahm, Laura, 


Garrett, May, 


Green, Chas., 


Gett, Lucy, 


Green, Ella, 


Gett, W. A., Jr., 


Griffith, Mrs. Fred, 


Gralnii, Bessie, 


Grunsky, Mattie K., 


Hawley, Daisy, 


Henley, Katherine. 


Henley, Belle, 


Hunt, Mary Lindley, 


Ing, John, 




Jackson, Julia L., 


Johnston, Frank J., 


Jacobs, Will, 


Johnston, W. A., 


Johnston, Belle, 




Kenney, Clara, 


Knight, Mary Reid, 


La Rue, H. M., Jr., 


Lindley, Edith, 


La Rue, J. Eugene, 


Lindley, Helen, 


La Rue, John, 


Lindley, Lelia J., 


La Rue, Lee, 


Lindley, Morton, 


Lawson, Belle, 


Logan, Daisy, 


Leonard, Ben, 


Logan, Jessie, 


Leoward, Chas., 


Lorenz, Geo. M., 


Leonard, Irene, 


Luther, x\nnie L., 


Lindley, Alice, 


Luther, Flora E., 


Liudley, Douglas A. 


. 


Mack, Chas. E., Jr., 


Megowan, David, 


McClatchy, C. K., 


Megowan, Mary E., 


McClatchy, V. S., 


Merritt, W. A., 





24 MEMBERS. 


McCleery, Alice, 


Miller, Ida V., 


McCleery, Chas., 


Montfort, Henrietta, 


McCleery, Ella, 


Montfort, Lou, 


McGuire, Agnes, 


Moore, Sarah M , 


McGuire, Belle, 


Mouton, Albert, 


McKune, Florence, 


Mouton, Ella, 


Megowan, Claude L., 




Norris, Frank M., 


North, Mrs. 0., 


Norris, W. E-, 




0"Brien, Maggie A., 


Osborn, W. E., 


O'Brien, Will J., 




Patterson, James G., 


Prentice, Arthur D., 


Patterson, J. G., 


Prentice, Sarah F., 


Pettit, Delia, 


Preston, Jessie L., 


Powers, Chas., 


Prideaux, Martha, 


Powers, Jennie, 


Putnam, George P., 


Powers, Lucius, 




Richards, J. L., 


Richardson, Robert, 


Richardson, Joey, 


Russell, Ben, 


Richardson, Minnie, 


Russell, Mary I., 


Seymour, Elizabeth, 


Snider, Mrs. Tom C, 


Sheets, Annie M., 


Stoll, Mamie L., 


Shirland, Mattie, 


Strong, Chas. B., 


Shirland, NelHe, 


vStudarus, Mrs. Chas., 


Siddons, Nellie, 


Studarus, Florence, 


Siddons, Wni. M., 


Sullivan, Alice, 





MEMBERS. 



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Sims, Hattie M., 
Sims, Paul R., 
Sims. Wm. M., 

Taylor, Belle, 
Treichler, Hattie, 
Treicbler, Henry, 

Van Voorhies, Georgia, 

Weil, Laura, 
Williams, Carrie R , 
Wilson, Mary B., 



Sullivan, Julia, 
Sullivan, Lizzie, 
Sullivan, Sophia, 

Treicbler, Tina, 
Turner, BUaJ., 



Wise, Alice, 
Witham, Edith, 
Withani, Mrs. G. G., 




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